Mansfield Town v Charlton Athletic
Sunday 11th November 2018 … 12:45pm Kick-Off
FA Cup 1st Round Proper
IntroductionForm appears to have returned to South East London, with maximum points and two clean sheets from as many games it appears as though Charlton can look forward and forget about the poor run of form in October (which can happen to any team) – Football League action though can now take a break until the 24th as Cup duties now take over, first up is the historic FA Cup and a trip to League Two; Mansfield Town awaits, time to see if the Giant Killers are out in force this weekend.
The OppositionName: Mansfield Town |
Manager: David Flitcroft
Ground: Field Mill
Of course there may well be a giant killing in Nottinghamshire this Sunday… For League Cup earlier in the season; Lee Bowyer would nail his intentions to the mast by fielding a weakened team against MK Dons and may well do the same this weekend – On a positive spin though, the Stag have never beaten the Addicks, these two sides meet for just the fourth time (two of those encounters coming in the old Second Division) with Mansfield only managing a 2-2 draw at best.
In recent years though Mansfield have been one of the major forces in League Two and if promotion continues to evade the Addicks then these meetings may well become more often – Currently occupying the last of the Play-Off places; the Stags have lost just the one league game this season (at home to Exeter City) so regardless of the team we put out, victory wont be assured regardless!!
On the playing front; Mansfield won’t have too many faces known to Charlton fans, yet Craig Davies, Krystian Peace and Conrad Logan all have experience at League One level which again reiterates the fact that this wont be a walk in the part like the Truro performance of last year
Charlton Team NewsAs match previewer I’ve been looking forward to saying this for a while yet it finally appears as though Billy Clarke is fit to participate in First Team affairs; the Republic of Ireland playmaker having been out of action for a year has slowly returned with minutes for the U23s and should at least be on the bench for the FA Cup clash.
Yet as one player returns two more depart for the Physios room – Luck has well and truly deserted Charlton players on the injury front of late with Igor Vetokele and Josh Cullen both now out for a number of months with a dislocated shoulder each… One final positive piece of news is the fact that German Centre-Back: Patrick Bauer is close to a return and is expected to make an appearance on Tuesday night against Swansea City in the Football League Trophy.
Phillips
Dijksteel | Pratley | Sarr
Marshall | Lapslie | Aribo | Stevenson
Fosu
Ajose | Grant
Substitutes Bench: Steer | Pearce | Morgan | Maloney | Ward | Clarke | Hackett-Fairchild
PredictionTrying to predict how we’ll do in a Cup competition is harder than the League, quickly simply because you’re never sure of how much a priority it is in the eyes of the Management – If the League Cup encounter against MK Dons is anything to go by then you’d expect a quick exit; on the other hand Stevenage proved that there is an opportunity for others to get some game time, especially with the busy festive season fast approaching!!
Comments
Away win 1-2 , possible shock but have a feeling we will win as we have very few proper games so we might actually take it a bit more serious.
To play Dijksteel in Midfield at the moment we'd need to have Solly at Right-Back so imagine Chris is having a good rest until the Bristol Rovers game
In flack the quarter finals of the FA cup and League cup is the furthest we have been in my lifetime.
Luck has to change eventually
2.1 Charlton and the march to Wembley begins.
Fuck All Cup
Charlton
Lower league oppo
Only one result. Good luck in the next round The Stags!
3-1
For that reason I can see us getting beat . 2-1 Mansfield and another year when we capitulate in the Cup.
(OK only kidding)
Are we allowed to play our loan players (Steer, Bielik and Ward)? Sometimes their parent clubs might prevent them playing, especially Ward who is only on loan until January
https://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/mansfield-town/fa-cup-fan-benning-confident-mansfield-town-will-cause-charlton-problems-1-9432702
“It will be a footballing game – I don’t think there will be much hustle and bustle.” - Hope this is the case, am sure both teams could do with getting through the game without any injuries, its partly why I'm glad we dont have a Non-League side as occasionally you do see their players throwing themselves into ill timed tackles because they're not up to speed with the League game
And when you look at our injuries, hardly any of them have come from bad tackles or dirty play.
Buts thats understandable in the same sense because they dont have the ability nor the budget to go toe to toe with the bigger teams at this level else they'd get slaughtered
https://www.chad.co.uk/sport/football/mansfield-town/mansfield-town-dreaming-big-as-they-begin-their-fa-cup-adventure-1-9436843
Mansfield Town 1 v CAFC 3
I think we will win but it won't be easy, I would say both teams to score is a bit of a banker. Mansfield have some good players, Tyler Walker, Otis Khan, CJ Hamilton, Danny Rose to name a few, all wouldn't look completely out of place playing for us.
I'm going Charlton 3-1, masterclass from an enthusiastic Clarke on his return, goals from Aribo, Grant and Clarke, their goal CJ Hamilton
There are a lot of reasons why a cup run is a good thing.
My team would be
Steer
Solly Belik Pearce Sarr
Pratley Aribo Lapslie Ward
Taylor Grant.
Mansfield are only accepting cash on the day of the match.
https://www.cafc.co.uk/news/view/5be5b11616e0e/fa-cup-preview-mansfield-town-v-charlton
I've got a good feeling about the cup this year X
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